Representatives of the Seward park Co-op are asking the city's Department of Transportation to post signs on East Broadway underscoring that trucks are prohibited from using it as a "through route." Co-op resident Ed Green has been on a...
A committee of Community Board 3 expressed bewilderment and dismay last night that the city has apparently held up the controversial reconstruction of Chatham Square without making any kind of official announcement. The project, reviled by Chinatown residents and...
The Transportation Committee of Community Board 3 has a full agenda tonight. Among the issues they'll address:
A request from residents and the Seward Park Co-op Board to put up signs on East Broadway limiting truck traffic to local deliveries.
A...
Housing rights advocates fought for a stronger stance in support of affordable housing Monday night, as a committee of Community Board 3 came close to completing a "statement of principles" for the redevelopment of the Seward Park Urban Renewal...
Community Board 3 is out with its June meeting agenda. As usual, it looks like the SLA Licensing Committee will have its hands full when it meets June 15th. Among the restaurants and bars on the agenda:
Grand Park,...
The people who live on Pike Street near East Broadway are not waiting for the city to conduct its investigation of the chaos occurring outside their apartments. We have been covering their fight to have a parking permit for...
Members of Community Board 3 will meet next month to select their executive officers. Last night, candidates made brief campaign statements during the board's monthly meeting at P.S. 20. Chairman Dominic Pisciotta is being challenged by Barden Prisant. The...
We've been following the fight by the people who live along a stretch of Pike Street to get those ubiquitous Chinatown buses away from their doorsteps. Last night they took the battle to the transportation Committee of Community Board...
Residents of the Lower East side came out in force last night to oppose several restaurants seeking liquor licenses. It was a tense night full of face to face confrontations between those residents and restaurant owners. Community Board 3...
It was a tough night for restaurants going before the liquor licensing committee of Community Board 3. Several businesses applying for liquor licenses faced forceful opposition from residents and, in some cases, from committee members.
The committee rejected a...
